Yue Hou

Yue Hou
Office
education
Department of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E53-406, 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.yue-hou.com
Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009 – present
• Dissertation: Participatory Autocracy: Private Entrepreneurs, Legislatures, and Property Protection in China
• Committee: Lily Tsai (Chair), David Singer, F. Daniel Hidalgo, Yasheng Huang (MIT Sloan)
• Fields: Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Political Methodology
B.A. in Economics and Mathematics, Grinnell College
2005 – 2009
• Phi Beta Kappa, Honors in Economics
• Concentration: Global Development Studies
publications
Ingroup Bias in Official Behavior: A National Field Experiment in China (with Greg Distelhorst).
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2014, 9(2).
work
in progress
Constituency Service Under Nondemocratic Rule: Evidence from China (with Greg Distelhorst).
Under Review.
Achieving Efficiency without Losing Accuracy: Strategies for Scale Reduction with an Application
to Risk Attitudes (with Krista Loose, Adam Berinsky and Cindy Kam).
Why are Chinese Civil Servants So Honest? A List Experiment (with Tianguang Meng).
Nationalism and Radicalization: Who Support Ethnic Repression and Why? (with Kai Quek).
Understanding Marriage Market Inequality (with Lucas Stanczyk and Kai Quek).
honors and
awards
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Doctoral Grant, 2013-2014
MIT Global IDEA Challenge Winner, 2013
MIT Center for International Studies Summer Study Grant, 2012
MIT Presidential Graduate Fellow, 2009-2010
Grinnell College Joseph F. Wall Scholarship, 2007-2008
invited
talks
University of California, San Diego (2015, scheduled)
Boston University (2014, scheduled)
Grinnell College, Alumni Scholar Series (2014)
Fudan University, China (2014)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (2012)
The School of Economics and Resource Management, Beijing Normal University, China (2011)
presentations
American Political Science Association Annual Conference (2014)
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference (2013, 2014)
MIT Political Economy Lunch (2014)
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference (2011)
Harvard-MIT-BU Chinese Politics Research Workshop (2011, 2012, 2013)
Chinese Community of Political Science and International Studies Annual Conference (2013)
International Conference on Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University (2011)
teaching
experience
Teaching Assistant, Thesis Research Design Seminar, with David Singer, MIT (2012)
Teaching Assistant, Justice, with Lucas Stanczyk, MIT (2012, 2013)
Mathematics Tutor, Grinnell College (2006-2009)
research
assistance
Yasheng Huang (MIT, 2012-2013)
Lily Tsai (MIT, 2010-2011)
Research Bureau, Peoples Bank of China (Beijing, 2009-2010)
European Parliament (Brussels, 2008)
other
experience
Coordinator, Harvard-MIT-BU Chinese Politics Research Workshop, 2011-2012
work
experience
Summer Associate, Investment Banking Division, Daiwa Securities Co.Ltd., Hong Kong, 2008
Participant, Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Syracuse University, 2010
Intern, The Grameen Bank, Bangladesh, 2007
Intern, Funding the Poor Cooperative (FPC), Chinese Academy of Social Science, China, 2007
newspaper
articles
Ten Questions on Boston Bombings (in Chinese), with Xiaohan Shi, The Southern Weekly, April,
2013
Are Government Officials Becoming Younger? (in Chinese), with Haoping Qian and Xian Wang, The
Southern Weekly, February, 2012
How Cadre Working Group Investigates Local Cadres (in Chinese), with Haoping Qian, The Southern
Weekly, December, 2011
skills
Language: Chinese(native)
Computer: R, LATEX, Stata, Python
references
Lily Tsai
Political Science Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
l [email protected]
David Singer
Political Science Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
[email protected]
F. Daniel Hidalgo
Political Science Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
[email protected]
Yasheng Huang
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142
[email protected]
Lucas Stanczyk
Political Science Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
[email protected]
October, 2014